Combined cigar-cutter and lid-holder.



W. S. LUCKEU.

COMBINED CIGAR CUTTER AND lLID HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 001.10. I9I4.

Patented Nov. 7,Il916.

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W. S. LUCKETT.

CQMBINED clGAR CUTTER AND LID HOLDER.

APPLICATJON FILED OCT. l0. i914.

Patented Nov. 7, 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 7, 1916.

Application le. October 10, 1914. Serial No. 866,093.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STONE Lnoxn'r'r, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a Combined Cigar-Gutter and Lid- Holder, of which the following is a specilication.

My invention relates to cigar box attachments; and the object of my invention is to provide a cigar box; that is to say, an original package containing cigars as sold by the manufacturer or by a dealer over the counter, with means whereby the lid may be held in an elevated position, and to combine with such lid holding device means whereby the tips or ends of the cigars may be cut or clipped in order that they may be smoked; the cutting means being under the control of and operated by the lid of the cigar box.

A further feature of my invention resides in the provision of an enlarged cutting device or a plurality of coperating cutting elements, one larger than the other, whereby, in addition to cutting the cigar tips, a special form of cigar may be cut into two sections.

These and other features of my invention are more fully described hereinafter, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a perspectiveview of acigar box equipped with one form of lid support and cutting device within the scope of my invention; Fig. 2, is a similar view illustrating another form of structure within the scope of my invention; Fig. 3, is a sectional view on the line 3 3, Fig. 2; Figs. 4, 5 and 6, are perspective views similar to Fig. 2, illustrating other forms of box lid supports and cutting devices within the scope of my invention, and Fig. 7, is an edge view of the structure shown in Fig. 6.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings, 1 represents an ordinary cigar box, having a lid 2, hinged thereto as at 3 in the ordinary or usual manner. Suitably secured to one end of the box is a cutting blade 4, which may be of any well-known character, or such blade may be provided with a notched portion 5 with a cutting edge, and carried by the lid of the box is a complemental blade 4a which may be a plain blade, or may be notched, as indicated at 5a, for cooperation with the blade 4. The respective blades, whether notched or not, are so positioned that by moving the lid on its hinged connection with the box, said blades will be brought into cooperative relation, so that the tip of a cigar held between the same will be severed when the lid is moved toward the box in the direction of closing the same. By preference, the blade edges are inclined toward each other so that but slight movement of the lid is necessary to effect the cutting action.

In order that the structure may be empoyed to maintain the lid in a raised or open position and inclined with respect to the box proper, that portion of the knife 4a whereby it is secured to the lid may be provided with an extension or finger 6 adapted to engage the back of the box, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1, and to insure that the lid will return to the original open position with the knives ready for engagement with the tip of a fresh cigar, I provide a spring 7 suitably connected to the blades and normally holding them in the open position with the lid raised above the boX. This spring may be a section of ordinary spring wire curved and fastened at its respective ends to the respective blades. By this means the lid will be held open, permitting free access to the cigars contained within the box, and when the cover, previously lowered to bring the knives into cooperation for the purpose of cutting the ends of the cigars, has been released, it will be immediately restored to the open position.

In the structure shown in Figs. 2 and 3, I provide a pair of slidable members 10 and 11, which are apertured, respectively, at 10a and 11u, which members are provided with overlapping clips or projections 12 and 13, respectively, so as to render said members capable of parallel movement with respect to each other. The apertures are provided with suitable cutting edges 14 and 15, and are normally in registry ready to receive the tip of a cigar, which may be severed by effecting sliding movement of the members 10 and 11 whereby the cutting edges of the apertures are carried past each other and effect a cutting action. To limit the movement of said members 10 and 11, they are provided with stop pins 8 for mutual engagement.

In order that the several structures may be employed as box lid supports and be operable by the movement of a lid, I provide clips or ears 16 and 17 carried by the box and lid, respectively, and held in place by thumb-screws 16a and 17a, more particularly Y bers and l1 having the cooperating cut- .ting elements to sever the cigar tips; the.

ends oi' the members 10 and 11 being pivotally connected to the clips or ears 16 and 17 carried by the boX and lid, respectively. To restore this form of the structure to its normal or inactive position ready to receive the tip of cigar, I provide a spring 7, which may be of the coiled type, having its ends connected to projections 18 and 19 carried respectively by the plates 10 and 11.

In the form of structure shown in Fig. 5, I provide a plurality of cooperating cutting devices; each of the sliding members or elements 10 and 11 having two apertures, 10a, 10b and 11a, 1lb, respectively; the apertures 10b and 11b being of materially greater dimensions than the others. The smaller set of cutters is designed for` the removal of the end or tip of the cigar to permit the same to be smoked, while the larger apertures 10b and 11b with their coperating cutting edges are designed for the reception and cutting of the body of a cigar, and have been devised and are more particularly applicable i'or the cutting into two sections of a special form of cigar. The cutting means carried by the sliding members 10 and 11 are pref* erably in line, as indicated in the drawings, and these sliding members are secured to a box and its lid in a manner precisely similar to that shown in Fig. 2.

In Figs. 4 and 6, I have shown pivotally connectedv members provided with coperating cutting portions. In the structure shown in Fig. Li, is a pair of members 20 and 2l having cutting portions 20b and 2lb, and provided with oii'set projections 20EL and 21u which are pivotally connected by a pin 22 upon which said members move when the box lid is operated. These members are pivotally attached to clips or ears 16 and 17 carried by the boX and lid, respectively, and these cutting members may be held normally separated, ready for use, and in a position that also serves to support the boX lid, by

means of a curved wire spring 7b, of the same character as that shown in Fig. 1.

In the structure shown in Fig. 6, I provide a pair of apertured plates 25 and 26 pivoted at 27, each plate having pairs of apertures 28 and 28a and 29 and 29a, respectively, designed for cooperative engagement upon swinging said elements upon their pivotal connection 27. These members will be carried by ears or clips 16 and 17 in a manner precisely similar to the structures shown in Figs. 2, et and 5, with Va coiled spring 7c designed to normally hold the plates 25 and 26 with their cutting portions in the open or receptive position. In order to main# tain said members in operative relation, a`

clip 30 may be struck up from one of the same and overlie the edge of the other.

I claim: Y

1. In a combined cigar tip cutter and box lid support, the combination of clips carried by said boX and lid, and coperative cutting members pivotally connected to said clips, said cutting members being movable with respect to each other to effect the cutting action by operating the lid.

2.v In a combined cigar tip cutter and box lid support, the combination of clips carried by said boX and lid, cooperative cutting members pivotally connected to said clips, said cutting members being movable with respect to each other to eiect the cutting action, and means 'for restoring said cutters to a receptive position, said meinbers in their inactive position serving to holdthe boi` lid open.

3. In a combined cigar tip cutter and box lid support. the combination of clips carried by said boX and lid, cooperative members piif'otally connected to said clips, and complemental cutting edges carried by said members, the latter being movable with respect to each other to eiiect the cutting .action by operating the lid.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this speciiication, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

W. S. LUCKE'IT.

Witnesses:

MURRAY C. BOYER, WVM. A. BARR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

